HELP...THUMB SUCKER

[amyandjess2811]

Please help I am at my wits end now. My DD 3yrs is a big thumb sucker and I have tried EVERYTHING! Plasters, Salt, Vinegar, The nail biting stuff and even putting Mustard on her tounge and nothing is working and I dont know what to do!
The dentist had told me that she has pushed her top teeth forward and I dont want her ending up with buck teeth please any ideas are more than welcome!!

I had a chronic thumb sucker and tried EVERYTHING. It used to drive me crazy cos I could see his teeth were starting to stick out. The problem was he did manage to stop in the day time but night time was a different story. I did the yukky tasting stuff, and socks, and sticker charts, and bribes (I mean incentives :P). I even went online and showed him what would happen to his teeth if he continued. Mean I know but I was desperate. Anyway, in my search online I found this ... www.thumbguard.com.au. It seemed kinda pricey but when I thought about how much I had already spent on stuff to try to stop it, not to mention the emotions both he and I had spent, and I was desperate. I figured it seemed the least traumatic so I just went ahead and bought it and OMG it worked! He only wore it at night cos day wasn?t a problem, and within a month he didn?t need or want to suck his thumb anymore. Even better I can see a difference in his teeth structure.

Now if only there was something I could buy to get rid of his other annoying habits :P

Good luck!

Ah Amyandjess, I'm not talking about really wonky teeth (like those on the thumbguard website for example!), I'm talking about teeth that are minorly out of true. I don't know if things have changed, but when I was at school it seemed that everyone suddenly had braces for no apparent reason, and I do think that orthodontists sometimes are touting for work. My mother was told I should have braces when I was little because of thumb sucking, because I have a gap between my front teeth. She didn't go along with that, and I'm very glad. I like my gappy teeth, they are part of who I am (and also a family feature, so nothing to do with thumb sucking anyway). I guess I think we all worry far too much about our appearances. Surely being happy and secure is more important?

nooka ofcourse it is how ever the way I see it is how is she going to be secure if she has taunts and jibes about her "Buck Teeth" if she has them! Her baby teeth have already been pushed out slightly not dramatically but the dentist told me that the baby teeth set the foundation, as such, for the adult teeth when they come through. Im sure a few people will agree that unfortunately you have to worry in a fair amount about how you look now a days because of the people that are so small minded if you have a slight peeve in the way you look. this, imo, is esp true when it comes to children because they can be nasty and make very nasty comments that I wouldn't have thought about at that age! As an example my niece was in tears coming home from school a while ago because she has a large birth mark on her arm that covers the main part of it, this wasn't on her face or any where that I would call a place to be teased about and she was called a freak and a retard. So, and I know people still wont agree with me, but I want my daughter to be free of that kind of hurt and if that means me striving to stop her sucking her thumb incase it deforms her teeth in any way then I will.